Improvement in attaching handles to crosscut-saws



. C. FFSPOONER.

ATTACHING HANDLES T0 CROSS=CUT"S-AWS.

' No. 190,522. Patented May 9,1877.

UNITED CHARLES F. SPOONER, OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO JAMES O. SHERMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHING HANDLES TO CROSSCUT-SAWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,522, dated May 8, 1877 application filed May 18, 1876.

reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The object of my invention is to afford a means of quickly detaching the handles from the plate of the saw, and also to firmly attach.

them to it.

Figure l is a View of the end of the blade of a crosscut-saw, with the handles attached to it. Fig. 2 shows the blade detached. Fig.

3 shows a key and string or chain for attach-- ing it to the handle to prevent the loss of the key. A is the handle. B is the socket; C, the

ear; D, the saw; f f, the teeth; 9, the chain or string attached to the key; h, the shoulder; K key.

The several parts of the within-described invention being constructed as specified, the end of the blade of the saw is held or drawn back against the shoulder by means of the key, as shown, the operation of quickly detaching and firmly attaching may be noted. By removing the key the handle will be detached from the blade, and the mode of attaching will be seen Without further specification.

I claim- In combination, the ears C C, shoulder h, and K all constructed and operating as and for the purpose specified and described.

CHARLES F. SPOONER.

Witnesses:

JNO. DAVIS, I. OTIs SHERMAN. 

